“With Desire I Have Desired”: Enjoying the Face of the Other as Political Theology: John Caputo and Dorothy Day Situating Hospitality as Divine Encounter

When attempting to undertake any exploration of the merits that deconstruction may have within the sphere of theology, the natural starting place is the work of John Caputo. Caputo has been instrumental in the formation of radical theology, theopoetics, and a hermeneutics of the event as new, or perhaps very old, ways of wrestling with how we are to traverse the delicate sphere of the Divine generally and the work of Jesus of Nazareth specifically. Thus, his expertise in the realm of theory will serve as a vital foundation for how we might begin to formulate a functional theoaktion and theo-ethic as we ourselves try to navigate what it means to be Catholic and live the Gospel message within the postmodern epoch through my chosen lens of the work done by Dorothy Day and the backdrop of Jesus’s ministry.